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Vince Reed 0:00 – 0:02

Network Marketing Nation, Episode Fifteen

Kathleen Radu

You’re not born a winner or a loser, but you’re born a chooser. And at the end of the day we get to choose and design the outcome of our life and the journey that we’re on.

Vince Reed

You’re listening to Network Marketing Nation, where six and seven figure top earners share their stories. My name is Vince Reed, Internet marketing trainer and coach. Prepare to be inspired.

Vince Reed 0:32 – 1:44

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Alright, I am extremely excited, I have on the line Ms. Kathleen Radu and here’s a little bit about her story. Before entering into network marketing, Kathleen Radu owned a traditional business with over 125 employees. Although this experience was invaluable, Kathleen still had an itch to achieve more. As a mother of 3, Kathleen decided to chase her entrepreneurial dreams and join a direct sales business. And in no time Kathleen reached top rank and hasn’t stopped since. In less than 3 years, Kathleen has built multiple companies earning her a 7 figure income. Now she’s here on network marketing nation to share her 6 and 7 figure success story with you. Kathleen what’s going on, how’s it going?

Kathleen Radu (1:42 – 1:48)

Hey Vince, so great to connect with you. Thank you so much for having me on.

Vince Reed (1:49 – 2:16)

I’m extremely excited and I’m extremely blessed because I really have the opportunity to speak to awesome people like you. So thank you for coming in and sharing these awesome experiences and stories with us. So you know obviously you got an amazing story, I’ve had the opportunity to kind of chat with you about it. Why don’t you share with us something maybe I missed in terms of in your short bio.

Is there anything there that you want people to know about your journey?

Kathleen Radu (2:17 – 3:42)

Yea gosh you know I was 27 years old, I was 7 and a half months pregnant. I had graduated from university and I had landed a really great job. It was a corporate job. Great income, pension plan, all of the things that people would normally look at think wow, you know you’ve got it made. And I walked into my boss’s office and just told him that I wasn’t going to come back after maternity leave and I he kind of looked at me like I was crazy. And he said what are you talking about? And I said I don’t know, but I just know that there has to be a better way. And I just took the bull by the horns and I ended up purchasing a company and buying up a bunch of little companies in the city and we became the largest company here in Victoria in our field. We had 125 to 150 employees and I did that for 4 years. I just remember when I look at the ceiling, you know what, this is not a better way. And so Im so grateful but I had enough. I didn’t know that I really know that I would grow up thinking I wanted to be a network marketer or be involved in direct sales. But I knew I had an entrepreneurial spirit and I knew what I was capable of doing if I found something that I was really passionate about. So I’m so grateful that I had ended up here after the last 21 years.

Vince Reed (3:43 – 4:21)

That’s awesome, what an amazing story. And just for people listening out there, this is a person who had an amazing business, but is so passionate about network marketing, truly believes that it’s a better way. So all of you getting started, know that you are on the right track. So let’s get started. I had a few questions for you and something that gets me excited and I think a lot of people listening, they get started , they obviously have dreams of earning six figures or even 7 in their business. And you’ve done that.

Tell everyone’s who is listening how that actually feels to accomplish that goal and was that something that you set out to do when you got started.

Kathleen Radu (4:22 – 5:54)

You know I don’t think I intentionally thought that I want to be a six figure earner or 7 figure income earner. I just knew that I needed to find a way, to be able to stay home initially with my children, raise all 3 of them and bring in a significant income. I mean I obviously started to get involved in the industry, I started to realize that was absolutely a possibility, and it feels amazing. But more than that, I’ve seen more people quit their jobs, work from home and make financial success and time freedom faster than any other profession that I’m aware of. For me it’s been life changing but when I was in direct sales, I had achieved so success but there were two things that I hadn’t achieved and that was financial freedom and time freedom. And so those became even more important than the 6 or the 7 figure income. And I knew that when I found network marketing years ago, I could achieve that. You know one thing I have learned is that success is hard, but being broke is much harder. And another thing I know Is that money doesn’t change you, being broke changes you because it’s all you think about. You think about how am I going to pay for my kids’ college education, or how am I going to make the bills at the end of the month? And that stress changes you, and my husband used to always say when we were raising our kids, you’re not born a winner or a loser, but you’re born a chooser. And at the end of the day, we get to choose and design the outcome of our life and the journey that we’re on. And I believe that network marketing gives everybody the level plane field to do just that.

Vince Reed (5:55 – 6:29)

That’s awesome. And you have me fired up right now. Gotta get to work. I love it. Tell me this, people get started and hear your story and obviously it takes a lot of work. I mean people sometimes just see the end result and they don’t realize the work you put in to get where you are. But tell everyone listening, why a person would join your team.

What makes you different than other distributors out there?

Hopefully I’m going to help them start to pick up some of the traits that obviously you have that made you successful.

Kathleen Radu (6:30 – 8:36)

Ok. That is such a great question. I think that a lot of people don’t take it seriously enough when they’re actually looking at a team or a mentor or a leader to follow. Because you really want to take the time to find like minded people who have the same, the same vision because that is really important. And one of the things that I’ve been so blessed with in my life is incredible leaders body hip and incredible mentors. I’m definitely one of those people that if you find somebody that you want to be like or achieve like, then you start to just learn what they do. And 3 years ago, when I was looking for an opportunity, my self and my best friend for years Becky Herly, and I knew we wanted to work with Kathleen Degalman. She was somebody who had an incredible passion for this industry, she had incredible success. And she also, really was big on financial literacy because it’s all great to make the money and all these great business, but it’s really what you do with that. And because of that, the three of us came together and with over 15 years of experience in network marketing and direct sales. We had a party planned. So we’ve got a little bit of everything. Kathleen has the expertise in financial literacy and making millions in the industry, and Becky and I come from a background where we are on relationship building, belly to belly, eyeball to eyeball. And collaborated and put together this incredible system, that really takes the guesswork out of what do I do next with the people that join my team. And we’ve been able to set up incredible community and point and direct people to a 30, 60, 90 day action plan that have the success that so many people want. I mean everybody gets into network marketing to be successful, we don’t get into it to fail. So we want people to have the best start, to put their best foot forward, and we just created this incredible team that I’m so grateful and feel so blessed to be part of.

Vince Reed (8:37 – 9:16)

Absolutely. And you did, you found people who you could work with. And you have fun working with. I think that’s important. All the time people look for anyone to join their business and if you look at (8:52)? Obviously there is typically higher in process. And it sounds like you’ve created a system that does a lot of that filtering for you. So you bring in good people, which is awesome.

Tell me this, if you could go back in time, in the beginning, that very first day when you got started, when you heard about this industry, what advice would you have given yourself when you got started?

Kathleen Radu (9:17 – 10:40)

Oh my goodness. That’s a big question. Younger me, well you know I think I would probably start with not being so hard on yourself. This is a journey and you have to at some point give in to the process of it. And it’s really important to enjoy it. And especially for women, you know women, you know theres this thing. The hardest critic of a woman is a woman. We’re so hard on ourselves, we’re always constantly pushing ourselves. When we compare ourselves to others, we slow down the process of our own journey and our own success. So Tony bobbins in one of my favorite, and I love his saying; the only person you need to compare yourself with is you, that is to be better today than you were yesterday. I’m an avid reader, im an avid listener, I believe that how you start your day is the most important thing you do. SO I get up every morning, make my coffee and I do my 30 minutes of what I put into my brain. What I put in that makes me a better leader. And leaders take action and I believe that when I look back and what I did, I was waiting for people to lead me when I started. And I just wish that I would have embraced It a little bit more, not been so hard on myself and really taken action to grow my business, the way that I saw my business, the way that I wanted it to be.

Vince Reed (10:41 – 10:53)

Absolutely. But just take it a little bit deeper. What specifically? How would you have done that? I mean, I know people hear that and they say whatever. Then one thing they could do to just kind of take that advice and just start with it.

Kathleen Radu (10:54 – 11:30)

You know what, don’t second guess yourself so much. I second guessed my abilities and I would’ve gotten on the stage sooner, I would’ve started doing presentations sooner, I wouldn’t have waited for people and I think that at the beginning I thought my age, because I was only in my early 30s. I remember thinking, gosh I don’t know enough, you know enough. Because you know more than everybody else in the room and that’s enough. I think part of that was just taking those steps to move closer to where you see the vision of where you want to be.

Vince Reed (11:31 – 11:51)

Awesome. Great advice. So this is a fun question, tell everyone listening, how your first sponsor actually recruited you on their team. How did that conversation go? Because I know a lot of people out there would be extremely happy if they would’ve got you under their team.

So how did that lucky person recruit Kathleen Radu on to their team?

Kathleen Radu (11:52 – 13:34)

Ok. Well I’m going to tell you two. I’m going to tell you how I got into direct sales first because this is a really great story. Again I was in my early 30s, I could not afford anything, I was invited to a home party, I literally went for the wine. I had 3 small kids at home and thought I could go and have a glass of wine, meet some other ladies, but I knew I couldn’t afford anything. I remember watching the lady that was doing the presentation and thinking wow, this is pretty cool. She comes up, she makes a little bit of money. I honestly though, I could do this. I could do this for 6 or 7 months. I could get enough in my bank account until I decide what I want to do. And so I just kind of jumped in, I knew that if I put my mind to something I could be successful at it. I went to the first conference I had after four weeks of actually joining that company. And I ended up staying with that company for 11 years and reaching the top rank in that company. So you never know who is watching, and timing is everything for people. And so I was so blessed that I got the greatest experience in direct sales and learning to build relationships with people. And when I got into network marketing, again it was that I had achieved everything except time and financial freedom in the company that I was with for 11 years. And when somebody talked to me about residual income, I was like wow, you know what? This is something that has been a missing part for me. And I honestly fell in love with network marketing. And I was an easy sell at that point because I knew what I could achieve and I knew that if I put my mind I could have the same success at networking.

Vince Reed (13:35 – 13:46)

Awesome. So pretty much you were an easy sell. You got in and you got started.

Kathleen Radu (13:47- 14:00)

Yea you never know who is looking. And I don’t think anybody could have looked at me and thought that I would or wouldn’t be successful in it. I just knew what I was capable of doing and I’m so grateful, that the people who have crossed my path have offered me an opportunity to be part of this incredible industry.

Vince Reed (14:00 – 14:37)

Awesome. So you had a lot of success. I mean people who earn 7 figures in anything, obviously you’ve done a lot of things. What people don’t often hear are things that we do that aren’t so great. And typically, with success comes a lot more rejection and failure.

That isn’t often talked about enough, so tell me your worst story of rejection.

Was there ever a time where you did a home meeting or you asked to tell someone about your business and every time you think about it you get this weird feeling. Is there any story like that that comes to mind?

Kathleen Radu (14:38 – 16:16)

Yes. I think when you talk about hard work and rejection and all those bits of things, it really hits home. Because there are a lot of times you feel like you are in the trenches and you’re just pushing that up hill. When I first started, when I graduated from university and had this degree, I really felt that I should continue on my path and he (dad) didn’t approve. He didn’t speak to me for almost two years and it was really really hard and he kept saying to my mum, you need to talk some sense into her. And I mum kept saying, just trust her, she’s always done things the right way, she always thought about everything through. But it was really hard for my dad and sometimes we wait so much for other peoples permission, we want approval, especially from the people that we love. And when we get it, it confirms for us that we’re on the right path. But when we don’t get it, it can really paralyze us. And it was really hard. And really got good at trusting my gut. I think that I was a better judge of what was good for me. Because I knew me. And I was more likely, I thought, to create a life that would make me happy. And I love my dad, and he came around when he saw my success. And he was able to celebrate in that. But it was really hard the beginning because I did want so much for his approval. And I just encourage other people that if youre waiting for somebody elses permission, don’t. Just do what you feel right for you. And then just go out there and they’ll come around. It just might take them a little bit of time.

Vince Reed (16:17 – 16:53)

Wow that’s a powerful story. And it’s funny. I speak to a lot of leaders, in fact there was one gentleman who I spoke with who is one of the top income earners in network marketing, period. In the top 5 I believe. And his family still to this day, they don’t talk to him. It’s really weird how people get fixated on own way of living and if you don’t do it their way, they can reject you. So I think that’s very inspiring, to keep going and realize that this is your life and you’re in a good place.

With that being said, tell us your best story of success for yourself and maybe someone on your team.